according to the reddit for ApplytoCollege, Rice is set to come out March 22. Can anyone confirm?
I know we are unsure about the exact date for decisions, but does anyone know the time they will likely come out?
In the past, the decisions have come out around 4:00 pm Central (Houston) time.
Rice President David Leebron said the following in a recent letter to parents and alumni:
Our enrollment staff has been working overtime to evaluate over 27,000 applications this year for the approximately 950 places in the entering class. Early Decision applications were up an astonishing 39 percent this year (those decisions went out in December), and overall the applications are up 30 percent. We see the increases in virtually every group of prospective students — further indication that Rice’s reputation continues to spread. We had nearly 15,000 applications just from the United States outside Texas, plus another 4,600 from outside the United States (both U.S. citizens abroad and international students).
Indeed, one of my favorite moments during a recent ski trip was not as I was speeding down the slopes, but sitting on a chairlift. Ping and I were riding up with two other skiers, and we asked the usual question of where they were from. “Southern California,” they replied, and then asked where we were from. “Houston,” we said. It was cold, and we had not an inch of skin showing. The man replied that he had just visited Houston with his daughter to visit Rice University as part of her high school senior tour, and he proceeded to go on (without any clue of our identity) about what an incredible school it was. That was one lift ride I could have stayed on a very long time! (And yes, eventually Ping did spill the beans and suggested I might be competent to answer a few questions about the university.) Rice is generating a lot of enthusiasm. Watch the reaction of one student, Chanel Ericsson, admitted last fall.
There is little doubt that some of the increase in applications (we estimate half) was the result of The Rice Investment and the national publicity it received when we announced it last September. What has struck people about The Rice Investment is not only its generosity in enabling lower-income and middle-class students to attend Rice without undue financial stress for themselves and their families, but also its simplicity and clarity. As I like to put it, we have a financial plan that I can explain in less than 45 seconds. Here’s the recap: Degree-seeking undergraduate students whose families earn less than $65,000 will receive grants that fully cover tuition, mandatory fees and room and board. Rice families earning between $65,000 and $130,000 will not be asked to shoulder the burden of tuition, and families earning over that amount but less than $200,000 will receive at least a half tuition scholarship. Students who qualify for this aid will no longer be required to take out loans as part of their need-based financial aid packages. All that assumes typical assets for those income levels.
What? 950 out of 27,000? That’s extremely low.
3.5%? Holy Owl!!!
Am I the only one freaking out??? Any applicants? Parents?
Yes, but more than 950 will be accepted because no school has 100% yield, and Rice’s yield tends to be about 40% (off the top of my head).
Last year 1,957 were accepted RD. I think Rice will be more conservative this year and accept 1,600 RD (pure speculation). This will result in a 6.6% acceptance rate RD. But again, pure speculation - it all depends on how many Rice accepts RD and what they predict the yield will be. My overall acceptance rate guess is 7.8%.
They will probably accept around 2240 but not everyone will decide to go there. Only about 40% of the people that get accepted actually sign-up to go to Rice. If they get into Rice, there’s a good chance that they also got into a few other T20 schools to choose from.
Thanks @Faulkner1897
As financial aid is better now, yield would be lower. More people will be able to afford.
@T20hopeful2023 Why would they accept 2240 when last year they accepted 1957 and with generous aid, more admits can enroll.
I think @T20hopeful2023 was talking about overall acceptances. I copied the stat that I posted from a previous post of mine, so hopefully it is correct. Rice accepted 408 already for ED, and my guess is that they will accept between 1600-1900 RD.
I think you mean yield will be higher.
How many did they accept last year and how many seats were available?
Freshman Profile - Fall 2018 (Class of 2022)
DECISION PLAN/APPLICANTS/ADMITS/ADMISSION RATE/ENROLLED
Early Decision/1,978/371/18%/362
Regular Decision/18,945 /1,957/10.3%/598
TOTAL 20,923/2,328/11%/960
https://admission.rice.edu/apply/freshman/admission-statistics
The goal was 930 students because of overenrollment the previous year, but 960 ended up matriculating.
Same re-Post from Jan 22 prediction.
Actual 2023 Early Decision__ 2,658____ 408____ 408___ 15.5%
Actual 2023 Reg. Decision__ 27,068___
@Houston1021 @ 8.5%, under 1000 Matriculate
@Faulkner1897 @ 7.8%, 975 Matriculate
@texaggie @9.5%, 1110 Matriculate
Drum Roll, Please!
Bull-eye for both of you guys. I still can’t believe it.
@Riversider 2240 is total (ED+RD) assuming that the RD yield is the same as previous years at about 30%. There was a string of posts on this thread about two weeks ago that we were discussing our predictions for acceptance rates for 2023. My prediction was an RD acceptance rate of 6.6% which would equate to a 35% yield. (7.2% ED+RD)
@texaggie The class size last year was 960 and the letter from the president said they were targeting a class of 950 so I can’t see a scenario where 975-1110 matriculate.
They are targeting a class size of 950, but they will be ok if under 975 matriculate. For the class of 2021, 1048 matriculated and that caused issues. However, in order to keep the number closer to 950, Rice is going to be very careful about the number of admits. The wild card this year is the Rice Investment, which will make Rice more appealing to more families given the more generous financial aid.